System Shock 1 is one of my all-time favorites, and I was really anticipating this remake for about 300 years, but I am so unenthusiastic about this. It basically sands down all of the unique eccentricities of the original System Shock while offering nothing new or interesting to observe. Of course there are many positives: the music is wonderful, the animations of the guns are surprisingly dense, and cyberspace is a marked improvement. The new bad boy attitude they gave the hacker though is dumb as fuck though.

I played through Medical and could honestly just feel that I had zero interest in playing anymore. System Shock 1 is a game I can replay all the time, it feels weighted and frightening in a way few games are, this remake removes all the little things that made me fall in love with that game.